Philip Banks

Philip Banks (30 January 1945-) was an American lawyer and California Superior Court judge. He was a conservative Democrat.

Biography
Philip Banks was born in Yamacraw, North Carolina in 1945, and he moved to Baltimore, Maryland at the age of 16. During the 1960s, he became a Civil Rights movement activist, and he was present at the riots in Selma, Alabama and Watts, California in 1965. He read all of Malcolm X's works, and he went on to graduate from Princeton and Harvard before becoming a board member of the NAACP in 1975. While he was a staunch conservative, he ran for the Superior Court as a Democrat in order to defeat his mentor, Judge Carl Robertson.